name: Calabash

flavor_db_name_variants: calabash

source: foodb

status: draft

food_db_id: Calabash

id: 318

name_scientific: Lagenaria siceraria

description: Lagenaria siceraria (synonym Lagenaria vulgaris Ser. ), bottle gourd, opo squash or long melon is a vine grown for its fruit, which can either be harvested young and used as a vegetable, or harvested mature, dried, and used as a bottle, utensil, or pipe. For this reason, the calabash is widely known as the bottle gourd. The fresh fruit has a light green smooth skin and a white flesh. Rounder varieties are called calabash gourds. They come in a variety of shapes, they can be huge and rounded, or small and bottle shaped, or slim and more than a meter long. The calabash was one of the first cultivated plants in the world, grown not primarily for food, but for use as a water container. The bottle gourd may have been carried from Africa to Asia, Europe and the Americas in the course of human migration. It shares its common name with that of the calabash tree.

itis_id: 22386

wikipedia_id: Calabash

picture_file_name: 322.jpg

picture_content_type: image/jpeg

picture_file_size: 66898

picture_updated_at: 2012-04-20T09:41:07.000Z

legacy_id: 349

food_group: Gourds

food_subgroup: Gourds

food_type: Type 1

created_at: 2011-02-09T00:37:35.000Z

updated_at: 2019-05-14T18:04:23.000Z

creator_id: null

updater_id: null

export_to_afcdb: false

category: specific

ncbi_taxonomy_id: 3668

export_to_foodb: true

public_id: FOOD00318